Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Bloomer girls : women baseball pioneers / Debra A. Shattuck.
Author
Shattuck, Debra A.
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
ReCAP - Remote Storage
GV880.7 .S53 2017
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Women baseball players
—
United States
[Browse]
Women baseball players
—
United States
—
Biography
[Browse]
Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
[Browse]
Series
Sport and society
[More in this series]
Summary note
Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and found roster spots on men's teams. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities, they nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-290) and index.
Contents
Creating a national pastime
1865-1879: contesting a national pastime
1865-1879: commodifying a national pastime
The 1880s: molding manly men and disappearing women
The 1890s: new women, bloomer girls, and the old ball game.
Show 2 more Contents items
ISBN
9780252040375 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0252040376 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9780252081866 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0252081862 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016007026
OCLC
945624959
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information